Supporting Your Journey
Compassionate, Integrative Therapy for Healing and Growth
"Grief without hope is despair. Hope without grief is denial."
Andrew J. Heinz, MSW, LCSW
Welcome.
Twenty years ago I started doing this work because I believed something that turned out to be true. People are more capable of healing than most of us have been taught to expect. And so are our nervous systems.
I still believe that. More than ever.
Healing asks for the whole person, body, mind, and soul. That is why my work draws from multiple frameworks: Somatic Experiencing®, Internal Family Systems, and trauma-informed care. Each person brings a story that is entirely their own, and the work follows from that.
What we are moving toward is not just symptom relief. It is earned secure attachment. A body that knows it is safe. A self that knows it belongs. That does not happen through conversation alone. It happens through carefully tending to what is happening underneath the words.
The people I work best with are self-aware, often high-functioning, and still feel like something essential is not shifting. They want to actually feel different, not just know more. If that resonates, you are in the right place.
You do not have to perform healing here. You just have to show up. I will pay attention to the rest.
Andrew J. Heinz, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist with more than twenty years of experience in trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. He is in his final year of advanced training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner through Somatic Experiencing® International. He serves clients throughout Northern Colorado and the greater Denver area and is the founder of the Somatic Healing Network, a vetted directory connecting individuals with nervous system informed care.
Practical tools. Deeper healing. The road home.
Who I Work With
Most people who find their way here have already done a lot of work on themselves. They are not new to trying. What they have not yet found is something that reaches the places words alone cannot.
Most men are taught to manage, push through, and keep it together. That works until it doesn't. This is a space to be honest about what is actually happening, without judgment, and to build something more sustainable than sheer willpower.
Whether you are carrying something from long ago or navigating something happening right now, you deserve care that meets you where you actually are. Not where you are supposed to be.
Adolescence is genuinely hard, and the pressure young people face today is real. This work creates a space where they can be honest, be heard, and begin to understand themselves from the inside out.
Doing this work well takes depth, presence, and care. I offer therapy and consultation for clinicians who want support navigating vicarious trauma, burnout, and the quiet toll of caring deeply.
LCSW Clinical Supervision for pre-licensed social workers pursuing LCSW licensure in Colorado. Individual supervision grounded in somatic and trauma-informed frameworks, in-person in Fort Collins or via telehealth statewide.
How I Work
The body holds what the mind cannot always access. Somatic practice builds the capacity to listen to that, to work with the nervous system directly, and to develop a felt sense of safety that no amount of talking can fully create on its own.
Some people have spent years in therapy and still feel stuck. Others are new to this and sense that surface-level work will not be enough. What they have in common is that they are after something real, not just relief. This is for them.
This is a space where your spiritual life is welcome, whatever form it takes. Andrew is a follower of Christ who brings that into his own life and his work, not as a framework to impose, but as a foundation that helps him hold what others carry.
What I Work With
Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is a nervous system doing what it learned to do. The work is not to eliminate it but to understand what it is protecting and help the system find a safer way to respond.
Addiction is almost never about the substance. It is about what the substance is managing. This work gets underneath the behavior to the pain, the patterns, and the parts of yourself that have not yet found another way.
Trauma does not live in the past. It lives in the body, in the nervous system, in wounds that never fully healed because they never fully had the chance to. This work helps you process what happened at the level where it actually lives.
Grief does not follow a timeline and it does not always look like sadness. Sometimes it shows up as numbness, anger, restlessness, or a quiet sense that something essential is missing. This is a space to let it be what it actually is, without rushing toward the other side.
Shame is not a feeling people talk about easily. It lives underneath the surface, shaping the way you see yourself, the way you move through relationships, and the stories you carry about who you are and what you deserve.
Healing Apps & Guides
SOMATIC FOUNDATIONS APP
Built on the Four Pillars of Somatic Practice (Orientation, Contact, Movement, and Grounding), the Somatic Foundations App is a specialized resource developed by Andrew J. Heinz, LCSW, to help you navigate anxiety, stress, and trauma by working directly with your body’s nervous system.
GETTING SETTLED: FOUR PATHWAYS BACK TO SAFETY
Getting Settled is a free guide designed to help you return to a place of safety when life feels overwhelming. Through four simple pathways, Orientation, Grounding, Soothing, and Connection, you'll learn practical tools to calm your nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and build a steadier foundation for everyday life.
